Ken Paul <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
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>If you have had problems with the 2GB drives let me know privately or post
back to
>the list and try to include specific information about the model numbers
and types of
>problems found as well as number failed versus number purchased.
 
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Well, the T1 is down which means, in era of distributed computing, that I
can't do much of anything.  I had a choice of updating the "What to do when
the system is down" guideline to also include T1 failures or of responding
to Ken's solicitation about 2GB SCSI failures.  So...
 
I first installed 2GB SCSI drives about 2 years ago, at this point I've go
25 of these drives: 6 x C2490AMs, the rest are C3010M1s.  In that time I've
had two failures: once a C3010M1 and the other time a C2490AM.  Fortunately
both failures occurred on members of user volume sets that did *not* hold
mission critical data.  Unfortunately, however, the C3010M1 was one of those
that's housed in the SPU cabinet; were I not attending IPROF at the time I
would have taken the system apart and pull the power lead for the drive
rather than wait for the CE to show up and replace the drive.
 
It's a lot better than a few years ago when I had 26 7933 failures in the
space of 19 months -- of course most of those were just head replacements:
no need for a reload.
 
 -- Evan